I'm afraid the next 3 months is going to perfectly depict hell for me. I have nothing to do, and it's getting quite irritating. I already volunteered to help out with the schools yearbook (ran into the teacher in charge/ she asked for my help/ she'll give me a call after Ramadan) which is great but it wont exactly fill up my days. Two other friends of mine in the same fix wanted to help out at the local animal shelter here too, but the only problem is the distance between them and us. So we're/I'm at a loss. What luck.
And it appears a sibling of mine has found her way into the blogging world. Not the first I assure you but surely the most clueless out of the two. Her first post was a basic 'introduction' and she practically spilled her life story on there (names of family members, her current school, etc). I had to sit her down and talk her through the 'rules of the blogging world'; a task which I never foresaw myself doing but found quite amusing (apart from the objections to why I won't link her to my 'nonexistent' blog [i lied, sue me. Honestly, just because I know things doesn't necessarily mean I'm involved in them too. Hah. It was a valid argument!]). Strictly speaking, it's fine if you want to pour yourself all over the pages (after all, your life story is up for grabs on facebook) but there is a limit, and you can't cross it. Especially in Kuwait.
As for family, I finally added that brother of mine on Skype. I haven't talked to him willingly in the past year so let us see how long this lasts. At the moment he's simultaneously complaining about the workload and praising the parties at his university in the US. This most likely being his sad attempt to sell me off to his large state university. Not my type of thing at all. He knows it, yet he never stops.
Friday 19 September 2008
Monday 8 September 2008
Seven.
Time is running out and I have about 3/4 months to finish everything and anything that is required of me for University.
In terms of applications, I'm going to have to rely on the MOHE to apply to the universities I want. Here's to hoping that they don't screw up! The reason for this is that even if I decide to apply to a university on my own from the credited list up at Kuwait Culture, I have to tell them which university I'm applying to so they apply too. Which honestly, is ridiculous because I don't think any university accepts two applications from one student. And I'd really rather not take the risk and have a confusion (and thus, delay) in the whole process, so I might as well go with them. A friend of mine turned in the needed documents a month or so ago and already received his acceptance into the American University in D.C. So they can't be that bad.
Basically everything is done on my part but the personal statement, medical (which I shall sit through tomorrow morning) and getting my recent A Level grades credited by the British Council cause I might as well use them. I'm still a tad dodgy about the personal statement though. I wrote along to Earlham's description of what they want in a personal statement, and I'm content with it, but I'm afraid summer drained any ounce of creative and intellectual muse I had in me within the school year. I guess that is what happens when you go from writing a mix of history/literature/geography essays every day to nothing for months. I'd post my statement here and ask for your opinions, but I'm afraid it'll be run through some processor for plagiarism and be caught. Any thoughts on this?
In terms of applications, I'm going to have to rely on the MOHE to apply to the universities I want. Here's to hoping that they don't screw up! The reason for this is that even if I decide to apply to a university on my own from the credited list up at Kuwait Culture, I have to tell them which university I'm applying to so they apply too. Which honestly, is ridiculous because I don't think any university accepts two applications from one student. And I'd really rather not take the risk and have a confusion (and thus, delay) in the whole process, so I might as well go with them. A friend of mine turned in the needed documents a month or so ago and already received his acceptance into the American University in D.C. So they can't be that bad.
Basically everything is done on my part but the personal statement, medical (which I shall sit through tomorrow morning) and getting my recent A Level grades credited by the British Council cause I might as well use them. I'm still a tad dodgy about the personal statement though. I wrote along to Earlham's description of what they want in a personal statement, and I'm content with it, but I'm afraid summer drained any ounce of creative and intellectual muse I had in me within the school year. I guess that is what happens when you go from writing a mix of history/literature/geography essays every day to nothing for months. I'd post my statement here and ask for your opinions, but I'm afraid it'll be run through some processor for plagiarism and be caught. Any thoughts on this?
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